En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal and his pre­de­ces­sor, Stu­art Young, yes­ter­day clashed in Par­lia­ment over al­le­ga­tions sur­round­ing en­er­gy ser­vices com­pa­ny TN Ram­nauth and Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed.

The con­fronta­tion un­fold­ed in the Low­er House af­ter Young pressed Mooni­lal to dis­close how many lease op­er­a­tor or farm-out agree­ments Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um had grant­ed to TN Ram­nauth or any of its as­so­ci­at­ed com­pa­nies since the Gov­ern­ment took of­fice.

Mooni­lal ini­tial­ly de­clined to an­swer, say­ing the an­swer had been giv­en at a pre­vi­ous sit­ting, prompt­ing Young to ques­tion whether the min­is­ter was re­fus­ing to re­veal how much busi­ness had been award­ed to what he de­scribed as Mooni­lal’s “friend” at TN Ram­nauth.